Electric-generator-operating device.



W. S. FISCUS.

ELECTRIC GENERATOR OPERATING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 11.. 191.3.

1,156,594. Patented 001.. 12, 1915,

WITNESSES INVENTOR W Wm flM f a? WILLIAM S. FISCUS, 0F STEUIBENVILLE, OHIO.

v ELECTRIC-GENERATOR-OPERATING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 12, 1915.

Application filed December 11, 1913. Serial No. 806,070.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. FIsoUs, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Steubenville, in the county of J efferson and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electric-Generator-Operating Devices, of which the following. is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to an electric generator operating device, for use in connec tion with motor vehicles, and has for its object to provide means, in a manner as hereinafter set forth driven from the exhaust of the motor of v.the vehicle for operating an electric generator and for mufliing the sound of the exhaust.

Further objects of the invention are to provide a device for the purpose set forth, which is simple in its construction and arrangement, strong, durable, efficient and convenient .in its use, readily attached to the motor vehicle body and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture- With the foregoing and other objects in View, the invention consists of the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts as hereinafter more specifically described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein is shown an embodiment of the invention, but it is to be understood that changes, variations and modifications can be resorted to which come within the scope of the claim hereunto appended.

In the drawings, wherein like reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a motor vehicle showing the adaptation therewith of an electric generator operating means in accordance with this invention, Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the rotor forming an element of the electric generator operating means in accordance with this invention,-Fig. 3 is an end view of the rotor, and Fig. 4: is a cross sectional view.

Referring to the drawings in detail, 5 denotes a motor vehicle, the engine thereof being illustrated in dotted lines and indicated by the reference character 6, and which is provided with an exhaust pipe 7 common to the cylinders of the engine. Carried by the vehicle is an electric generator and which is conventionally indicated as at 8 provided with an operating shaft 9. As shown the generator is arranged at the rear of the motor vehicle and it can be positioned in any desirable place.

Suspended from the bottom of the vehicle, rearwardly with respect to the engine 6 is a rotor operated by the' exhaust from the engine and which is not only utilized for operlating the generator 8, but also for mufliing the exhaust. The rotor consists of an elongated cylindrical casing 10 closed at its ends by flanged heads 11, 12, which have threaded engagement with the inner face of the casing 10. Each of the heads 11, 12, is formed centrally with an opening 13'and an integral outwardly projecting boss 14 having a centrally disposed opening which reg= isters with the opening 13. Journaled in the heads 11, 12, is a longitudinally extending drive shaft 15 having one end thereof projecting from the head 12, said projected end is indicated by the reference character 16 and has a universal joint connection 17 with a transmission shaft 18, the latter having a universal joint connection as at 19 with the shaft 9. By the construction set forth, it is obvious when the shaft 15 is operated that motion will be transmitted to the shaft 9 thereby operating the same.

The rotor furthep consists of a pair of hubs 20, 21, which are fixedly secured to the shaft 15 and arranged in close proximity to the heads 11, 12. Each of the hubs 20, 21, intermediate its ends is formed with an annular peripheral web 22 and each of said hubs inwardly with respect to its web has peripheral threads 23.

The reference character 24 denotes an elongated tubular member having the inner face thereof at each end threaded for engagement with the threads 23 whereby said tubulargmember 2 1 is fixedly secured to the hubs 20, 21.

' The rotor further includes tangentially disposed vanes 25, which are disposed longitudinally with respect to the member 24: and arranged in pairs. The vanes of each pair are connected together by an integral longitudinally extending coupling piece 26 which is fixedly secured to the member 2 1, by holdfast devices 27.

The rotor further includes a pair of semicylindrical casings 28, 29, forming respectively inlet and outlet chambers 30, 31.

The casings 28, 29, are connected together by an integral coupling piece 32, which is fixedly secured to the casing 10 by the holdfast devices 33. Each of the casings 28,29, is furthermore provided with a flange 3 1 which 1s secured to the casing 10 by the holdfast devices 35. The casing 28 is mounted upon the topof the casing 10, while the casing 29 is secured tothe side of the casing 10. The casing 28 intermediate its ends and in its top-is formed with an opening 36, in which 1s secured the threaded end 37 of a supply pipe 38, the latter communicates with the exhaust pipe 7 and the casing 29 at one end is provided with an outlet 39. The casing 10 at the top thereof is formed with a pair of tangentially disposed inlets 40, 41, for establishing communication between the chamber 30 and the interior of the casing 10, whereby the exhaust from the engine 6 when conducted into the chamber 30 will be supplied through the inlets 40, 41, by impact against vanes 26 thereby rotating the shaft 15, and in view of the fact that the blades will be shifted by the impact of the exhaust of the engine, and as the blades are fixedly secured to the member 24, which in turn is secured to the hubs 20, 21, these latter being fixedly secured to the shaft 15 will rotate the latter causing thereby the operation of the generator 8. The exhaust from the casing 10 is had through an opening 42 formed in one side of the casing 10, and which communicates with the chamber 31. The discharge from the chamber 31 will be had through the outlet 39.

From the foregoing description and arrangement of parts, it is obvious that a r0- tor is set up and operated from the exhaust from the engine of a motor vehicle and said rotor is utilized for driving an electrical generator carried by the vehicle. The construction is not only designed for driving the electric generator, but is also utilized for mufiling the exhaust from the engine of the vehicle.

What I claim is In a device of the class described, a frame of a vehicle, an internal combustion engine mounted at the forward end thereof, an exhaust conduit therefor, an electric generator mounted at the rear end of said frame including a drive shaft, a turbine in connection with the exhaust conduit, including a rotor and drive shaft, said turbine forming a Inufiler for the engine and the rotor and shaft therefor being driven from the exhaust, a transmission shaft having universal joints at its ends connected with the ends of the rotor and generator drive shafts, whereby to actuate the generator from the exhaust of the combustion engine.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM S. FISCUS.

Witnesses:

MAX H. SROLOVITZ, NICHOLAS L. BOGAN. 

